The Straits Times, 20 March 1988

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  • 647 1  -  PATRICK DANIEL You have made history. I salute you, he tells them By PESHAWAR Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who visited an Afghan refugee camp near here yesterday with Mrs Lee, hailed Afghanistan's freedom fighters, the mujahideen, as legends in their own time. Mr Lee,
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  • 195 1 Truckload of fireworks explodes, killing 1 1 in Surabaya JAKARTA Eleven people died and 26 were injured when a truckload of fireworks exploded in a crowded street in Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city, police said yesterday. A spokesman said most of the victims were helping to unload the lorry when
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  • 85 1 LONDON South Korean teenager Lee Young Suk provided the biggest shock of the All-England badminton championships when she eliminated top seed Han Aiping, of China, in the quarter-fi-nals on Friday and then went on to upset defending champion Kirsten Larsen, of Denmark, in the semi-finals
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  • 418 1 PANAMA CITY Panama's opposition called for a general strike after the government imposed a "state of urgency" on Friday amid reports that military strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega has agreed to most parts of a deal under which he would leave
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  • 354 1  -  NANCY LOH By A TEENAGE runaway secretly returned home one day and helped three friends break into his family's flat, where they stole nearly $3,000 worth of items. The 14-year-old boy had been missing for over a week before the break-in,
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  • 312 1 Pakistan confers Great Leader award on PM RAWALPINDI Mr Lee Kuan Yew met Pakistani President General Zia ul-Haq last night and, in a short ceremony following his one-hour meeting, was conferred one of Pakistan's highest civil awards, the Nis-han-E-Quaid-I-Azam (The Order of The Great Leader). The citation for the award,
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  • 509 1  - Bicycle shops the main suppliers of glue to sniffers, reveals Jaya BRENDAN PEREIRA By BICYCLE shops have been found to be the main suppliers of glue to sniffers and the authorities are keeping a close watch on six in particular. The number of glue sniffers detected had fallen by a
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  • NEWS FOCUS
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      458 2 SOVIETS GAVE THEIR WORD': The joint Soviet-Yugoslav document issued at the conclusion of Kremlin chief Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Belgrade forbids Moscow from repeating the kinds of invasions it carried out in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Yugoslav officials said. However, a similar declaration issued in Belgrade in 1955
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      213 2 ON THE HIT-LIST: lan Woosnam (right) of Britain, the world's most successful golfer last year, is the latest target of the anti-apartheid campaigners who forced Zola Budd out of the British team for the world cross-country championships in New Zealand next Saturday. Welshman Woosnam, 30, prompted increased anti-apartheid interest
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    • 147 2 PESHAWAR Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at Michni Point in the Khyber Pass, looking over the border into Afghanistan (above). From Michni Point, the pass opens out into a valley where the Afghan village of Torkham is located. Also visible are the snow-capped mountains
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    • 573 2 "We're talking about moving an entire country." A Pakistani official ISLAMABAD On paper, the plan seems simple enough: Inoculate all refugees and give each family a tent, a three-month supply of wheat, cooking oil, a few farming tools and a free ride
      UPI  -  573 words
    • 572 3 IT TOOK Singapore about five years to come up with an artillery gun that could best meet the needs of the Singapore Armed Forces. It was no mean feat by any standard, considering that foreign manufacturers raised their eyebrows when told that was the
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    • People behind the big gun
      • 131 3 "THE FHBB had to be easily deployed, and fast. Certain operations had to be automated. We looked at the total system and broke it down into sub-systems, determined which areas to" automate and what the effect would be on other parts of the gun. "We had to
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      • 98 3 THE testing phase of the FHBB included determining whether the gun would be compatible with ammunition now used by the SAF. This aspect was looked after by engineers like Captain Lee Tiong Hua, 30. He had, among other things, to compute pressures in the gun's chamber
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    • 513 3 THE Ordnance Development and Engineering Company of Singapore (ODE) had the design responsibility for the FHBB. They worked closely with Mindef's engineers who also had the role of project managers which required them to apply both engineering and management skills. Engineers translated
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    • 607 3  -  PAUL JACOB JACKY HO Starting pay to go up by 15% and study awards will be offered to A-level students, undergrads Reports by I Picture by THE Defence Ministry yesterday became the latest organisation to join in the hunt for top calibre engineers this
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    • 21 2 STATISTICS THAT SHAPE THE COUNTRY Men with four-figure salaries fen*--' By Narendra Aggarwal Basic data 1986 Singapore Yearbook ol labour Statistics
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 183 2 Fair. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: 34 max., 25 min. SUNSET today: 7.15 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 7,08 am. TRAVELLERS' WEATHER Adelaide 2334C Fine Ix>s Angeles 10 25 C Clear Amsterdam 78C Clear Madrid 620 C Clear Athens 9 16C Cloudy Manila 23 35 C Sunny Auckland 17 18
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 477 4 Nicaragua halts offensive as Honduras warns of military drive UN team to visit border area in bid to ease tension MANAGUA Nicaragua has called off an offensive against US-backed Contra guerillas amid warnings by the Honduran President that he would launch a military drive against "intruders" from Managua which could
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    • 50 4 I Weddings on weoarngsuriaer^^fer^^rier World champion unicycle figure rider, Dutchman Sem Abrahams, and his American fiancee, Ms Teresa Hemminger, decided to turn up for their wedding in Maarsen, Holland, on unicycles. They said "I do" and, there was no flat tyre. M Pana picture.
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    • 101 4 NARITA The number of passengers using Narita international airport near Tokyo topped the 100 million mark yesterday, airport authorities said. Australian lawyer David Jones, a 44-year-old arrival from London, was presented with a Japanese doll for being the 100 millionth passenger using Narita airport,
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    • 282 4 Secretary in Bonn ministry held for spying BONN A secretary in the West German ministry which handles Bonn's foreign aid programmes was arrested on Friday on suspicion of spying for East Germany, security sources said. "This case is of great significance," a high-ranking security source said. Disclosure of the arrest
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    • 380 4 SEOUL Former president Chun Doo Hwan yesterday asked South Korea to investigate alleged irregularities by a statebacked body once headed by his younger brother Kyong Hwan. Kyong Hwan left South Korea secretly on a flight to Japan on
      Reuter; AFP; AP  -  380 words
    • 238 4 SYDNEY Australia's ruling Labor Party lost state elections in New South Wales yesterday. "I've come here on behalf of the government to concede defeat," Mr Barrie Unsworth, Premier of the country's most populous state, announced at the tally centre in Sydney. Election officials
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    • 429 5 Chinese leaders end meeting with call for stable economy High inflation and runaway spending spark concern BEIJING The Chinese Communist Party closed a five-day meeting of its ruling Central Committee here yesterday with a call to stabilise the national economy, the Xinhua news agency reported. The Central Committee had been
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    • 60 5 |^A model showing off delsignerJejm^nanesCaste^ alternative to the usual sober grey and black winter clothes. This teddy bear coat is guaranteed to keep one warm next winter and turn a few heads as well. It was presented at the unveiling of a
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    • 314 5 BELFAST Two British soldiers in plain clothes were shot dead yesterday after their car was caught up in an IRA funeral procession in Catholic west Belfast, a British Army spokesman said. Eye-witnesses earlier said a car had appeared to try to ram the
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    • 140 5 BANGKOK The Khmer Rouge accused Vietnamese troops yesterday of poisoning water in a village in the southern Cambodian province of Kampot, killing three people. In a clandestine radio broadcast, the resistance group said the Feb 25 incident also left about 50 people sick, many
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    • 277 5 Tokyo f orex dealers celebrate while awaiting US trade news TOKYO The release of the United States' monthly trade deficit data is a serious matter for most of the financial world, but in Tokyo, it is also a good excuse for a party. On Thursday night, as in every month,
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    • 338 5 NEW YORK Oil prices jumped by as much as US 50 cents (about Ssl) a barrel on world markets on Friday amid expectations that the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the recent price slide. The
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    • 440 6 DUBROVNIK (Yugoslavia) The joint Soviet- Yugoslav declaration issued on Friday forbids Moscow from repeating the kinds of invasions it carried out in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968, according to Yugoslav officials. The document, pledging to respect the equal
      NYT; Reuter; AFP  -  440 words
    • 260 6 DUBROVNIK A senior Soviet official said that Western newspapers and magazines may soon be available at kiosks in Moscow and other Soviet cities. Mr Fyodor Burlatsky, head of a Soviet human rights commission set up last year, said on Thursday, however, that a
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    • 71 6 Dow Jones NEW YORK Wall Street's blue chip index achieved a post-crash record close on Friday even though it failed to stay above the 2,100 level that it breached earlier in the session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose 21.72 points
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    • 370 6 WASHINGTON China's sale of intermediate-range missiles to Saudi Arabia was a "disturbing" development that could pose a security threat to the entire Middle East, the State Department said. "The missile system would have a range which would include all
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    • 150 6 RIO DE JANEIRO Rio police had to count almost US$B million (5516.08 million) in cash recovered from a February air cargo robbery here. Seated behind the money with shirt unbuttoned is Jorge Jose Marques Sobrinho, head of the Rio Police Narcotics Department, who
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    • 238 6 GENEVA An international conference of medical experts has said it had found no evidence that people infected with the Aids virus were likely to suffer mental disturbances before suffering from the disease itself. The conference said there was
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    • 323 6 North to retire from Marine Corps to fight charges in Iran-Contra scandal WASHINGTON LieutenantColonel Oliver North says he must leave the Marine Corps and the uniform that is so much a part of his popular image to fight criminal charges lodged against him in the Iran-Contra scandal. Dressed in civilian
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    • 279 6 Kremlin talks for group from Nargono Karabakh MOSCOW The Kremlin's No. 2 man, Mr Yegor Ligachev, met workers from a region at the centre of trans-Cauca-sian ethnic unrest as residents mounted pressure for a decision on their demands. He spoke on Friday to a delegation from Nargono Karabakh, the mountainous
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    • 226 6 WASHINGTON A high-tech-nology camera and drill used to find a 4,600-year-old Egyptian funeral boat could revolutionise the dusty world of archaeology, as well as modern-day tourism, scientists said. The wooden vessel was found last October at the Great Pyramid of Cheops
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    • 326 7 Inter-agency group set up to make recommendations WASHINGTON President Ronald Reagan has issued an executive order creating an inter-agency working group to make recommendations to avoid a recurrence of last October's stock market crash. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said in a statement
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    • 225 7 WASHINGTON New "zero tolerance" drug guidelines that allow the arrest of anyone entering the United States with even tiny amounts of illegal drugs go into effect tomorrow. US Customs Commissioner William von Raab said in a statement that as of tomorrow, all
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    • 141 7 POLAND A government commission has declared Poland's first sex education book unacceptable and banned it from schools, ending a sixmonth debate that made it a best-seller on the black market. Preparation for Life in the Family was introduced in high schools last winter
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    • 95 7 TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita's popularity rating has fallen slightly, according to an opinion poll published here yesterday. Conducted by the Asahi Shimbun, it showed him with a 43 per cent vote of approval, compared to 44 per cent in December. Those critical of his government
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    • 333 7 Trade unions raise concern over global decline in membership MELBOURNE Many delegates to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) congress here have expressed fears about a global decline in trade union membership. And the need for trade unions around the world to change to remain viable emerged as
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    • 188 8 Strong yen so 93% plan honeymoons abroad TOKYO About 93 per cent of Japanese replying to a recent survey on honeymoon plans expect to travel abroad this spring, mainly because the Japanese yen's strength makes foreign travel cheaper. The Japan Travel Bureau survey covered 2,000 couples who applied to its
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    • 759 8 HONOLULU Real estate brokers here tell stories about Genshiro Kawamoto, a Toyko billionaire who in recent months has cruised Honolulu's better residential neighbourhoods in a black limousine. Every so often he pointed to a house he wanted to buy. So far, the brokers say, Mr Kawamoto
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    • PEOPLE
      • 120 8 ACTORS JIMMY STEWART and Burt Lancaster led a group that pleaded for Congress to halt the "desecration" of their classic movies by such things as the colouring of black and white films. Lancaster played the fast-talkiig tough guy and Stewart his drawling partner during meetings with
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      • 133 8 MANEKA GANDHI (right) has been a model, journalist, author and, until recently, was the president of one of India's opposition political parties. She might well have been India's First Lady, had her husband, Sanjay, younger son of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, not been killed in a
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      • 112 8 QUEEN ELIZABETH U, Britain's richest person, will get a 4 per cent pay rise this year for a total salary of £4.5 million (5116.65 million), the British government announced last week. She was paid £4.3 million last year to cover the cost of running her
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      • 151 8 DEEP IN the forests of the Himalayan foothills, an Indian princess has dedicated her life to the welfare of wild elephants. Far from her banker husband and luxurious home at Gauripur in the neighbouring state of Assam, Princess Parbati Baruah, 32, lives a nomadic life helping
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      • 164 8 A QUESTION that has hounded US Secretary of State George Shultz for nearly two years struck again last week. At the end of a round-table question-and-answer session with high school students over closed-circuit television, a student asked Mr Shultz: "Is it true that you have
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      • 128 8 ACTRESS Elizabeth Taylor, 56, former World Bank president Robert S. McNamara and two organisations will receive the 1988 Onassis awards. The annual awards honour international contributions in scholarship, human rights and the environment. They will be presented at a formal ceremony in Athens on May
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 205 9 Thai force to be formed to guard displaced Khmers BANGKOK A new Thai pa-ra-military force, partly funded by a US donation, is to be created to guard displaced Khmers along the Thai-Cam-bodian border. This was reported in The Nation, which said there are some 290,000 displaced Khmers along the common
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    • 35 9 JAKARTA A Korean electronics firm, Goldstar, has signed a US$5 million (5510.05 million) joint venture agreement with an Indonesian company to assemble television sets and audio cassette tape record- ers in Jakarta. AP
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    • 323 9 MANILA A ranking communist guerilla leader operating outside the US Clark Air Base north of the capital has been captured during a raid on his hideout, dealing a "serious Wow" to the insurgency movement. Lt-Col Efren Fernandez, National Police commander of Pampanga
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    • 194 9 MANILA A military officer has blamed "unwarranted meddling" of politicians for the Philippine government's weak counter-insurgency campaign. Testifying before a congressional sub-committee on internal security, Col Bernabe Orena, Commander of the 15th Infantry Battalion in Cagayan Province, said the "constant
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    • 364 9 VIENTIANE A two-day round of Thai-Laotian border talks here broke up in acrimony after seven weeks of friendly moves by both parties to foster better relations. A quarrel between Thai and Laotian Foreign Ministry spokesmen at a news conference at the end
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    • 202 9 Indonesia aims to improve image abroad and continue peace role JAKARTA Indonesia is to pay special attention to "image building abroad" as spelt out in the Guidelines of State Policy (GBHN). The GBHN, which was adopted at the National Consultative Assembly (MPR) this month, states that it is important for
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    • 245 9 MANILA President Corazon Aquino, impatient for swift action on a controversial land reform programme, said yesterday she wants a scheme with the greatest chance of success implemented soon. "We have to hurry up with that programme," Mrs Aquino told reporters. Her statement came
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    • 225 9 MANILA Police arrested a Malaysian businessman and two Australians involved in faking passports and swindling, the Philippine Immigration chief said. Ms Miriam Defensor Santiago said the Malaysian was arrested on Friday in his luxurious home in Manila's Makati suburb where more than
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    • 284 9 All-out war if Mora front is not made member of Islamic body, warns Misuari AMMAN The leader of the Philippine Muslim separatist movement warned yesterday that unless his organisation was recognised as a full-fledged member of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), "a full-scale war will erupt in the Philippines".
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 405 10 Members urged to prevent possible takeover of party HQ KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association owes Bank Bumiputra Malaysia M535,480,374 (5527,674,691), deputy secretary-general Ting Chew Peh said. This is the amount owed to Bank Bumiputra as at Dec 31, last year and includes the principal
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    • 136 10 Party suing newspaper for libel, says report KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association is suing the China Press for libel and damages arising from a recent report in the Malaysian Chinese-language newspaper on the party's financial problems. Nanyang Siang Pau Malaysia reported that the suit filed by MCA secretary-general Ng
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    • 180 10 KUALA LUMPUR The former Minister of Welfare Services, Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad, has gone into the dry-cleaning business. The 39-year-old MP for Johor Baru set up a dry-cleaning service called Dynawash Dry Cleaners about two months ago. In its report, the Malay-language daily Utusan Malaysia quoted
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    • 114 10 Siew Sin to be given state funeral KUALA LUMPUR Former Finance Minister Tun Tan Siew Sin, who died on Thursday of a heart attack, will be given a state funeral today. He served in the Cabinet from independence until his retirement as Finance Minister and Malaysian Chinese Association president in
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    • 292 10  - Musa heads New Umno's pro-tem division in Segamat QUAH CHOON POH By DATUK Musa Hitam, formir Umno Deputy President and former Deputy Prime Minister, confirmed yesterday that he has been appointed chairman of New Umno's Segamat pro-tern division. Datuk Musa, who had held the same post in the old Umno
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    • 275 10 Police question staff of co-op over alleged CBT of $18m KUALA LUMPUR Police have started questioning several past and present staff members of Koperasi Rakyat Bhd (Korakyat) over alleged criminal breach of trust involving Ms23 million (SslB million) of its funds. About 20 people, including three datuks and several directors,
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    • 156 10 JOHOR BARU A Form 2 schoolgirl pleaded guilty in the magistrate's court here yesterday to abetting five youths in her own kidnap and getting a ransom of M540,000 (5531,284) from her father recently. Kuok Wei Ling, 14, admitted abetting the
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    • 188 10 BUKIT MERTAJAM (Penang) The Education Ministry will continue to give priority to rural schools in terms of financial assistance, Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday. He said most of the schools did not have proper financial sources to fund purchase of
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    • 357 11 Troops mop up after two days of air strikes HAADYAI Fighter bombers from the Royal Thai and Malaysian air forces attacked four major suspected communist terrorist bases along the Thai-Malaysian border early last week. RTAF and RMAF aircraft bombed the bases over
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    • 164 11 White Paper on ISA detentions to be tabled on Wednesday KUALA LUMPUR The government is expected to table the White Paper on last year's detention of 106 people under the Internal Security Act in the Dewan Flaky at on Wednesday. Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Megat Junid Megat Ayub said
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    • 336 11  - BMF scandal: Open hearing in June, says lawyer R. VASANTHI By KUALA LUMPUR An open hearing involving witnesses in the M52.5 billion (551.95 billion) Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) scandal will be held in Kuala Lumpur in mid-June, a lawyer from a law firm representing the Hongkong government in Malaysia has
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    • 190 11 BANDAR BARU SERTING (Negri Sembilan) Deputy Land and Regional Development Minister Datuk Haji Khalid Yunus yesterday warned people instigating Felda settlers to stop their actions or be exposed. He said these outsiders, who had been active in the past three years, had tried to gain
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    • 145 11 KUALA LUMPUR Japan accounted for 23.2 per cent of foreign equity in Malaysian ventures at the end of last year, the largest overseas stake, followed by Singapore's 17 percent, Parliament was told. Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Kok Wee Kiat told Parliament on
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    • 262 11 Rithauddeen sees role for private firms KUALA LUMPUR The Defence Ministry will strive to get foreign defence technology transferred to Malaysia and may channel such technology to private sector firms that have the aptitude and capability to use it. Defence Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 419 12 THE desire to be "one of the gang" drove a 14-year-old boy to the glue can two years ago, even though he hated it. Bertrand Loh (not his real name) said: "I wanted to be a member of
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    • 33 12 Some of the 14 scenarios that will greet visitors in the jungle ride. Fighting off a tiger attack an artist's impression of what's in store for game "hunters".
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    • 529 12  -  SALMA KHALIK By GO ON a safari in Singapore. See predatory tigers, wriggling snakes, rogue elephants and vicious headhunters. Shoot your way out of danger with guns that look, feel and almost sound like the real thing. That is
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    • 100 12 1979 Problem first detected. 1980 24 known cases. 1981 73 known cases. 1982 528 known cases, despite widely-publicised warnings that glue-sniffing can cause loss of memory, affect sight, impair judgment, and even lead to death. 1983 820 known cases. 1984 812 known cases, first dip in number.
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    • 59 12 Signing of CTE contract A CONTRACT signing ceremony for the Central Expressway from Bukit Timah Road to Chin Swee Road, will take place on Saturday at 11 am. The ceremony and reception will be at the MNDRC Auditorium at National Development Building off Maxwell Road. Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister
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    • 72 12 A YOUTH who let off a firecracker at Cavenagh Bridge on March 1 was fined $2,000 yesterday. Se Siean Tham, 19, was caught by a policeman who saw him throwing the cracker at about 11.30 that night. In another court, Secondary 4 schoolboy Tan Keng
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    • 803 14  -  SANDRA CAMPBELL By *KHHu9* It's always like that. I've been here for one hour and I have already put in $30 in coins. I put whatever I get from the machine back into it because I may get a bigger win if
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    • 180 14 THE case against three men charged with assaulting three women and a man in a discotheque at a club for graduates last Nov 21 will be heard on Sept 22 and 23. Patrick Tan Kim Way, a financial controller; Chan
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    • 72 14 THE Public Works Department handed over the $6.78 million Geylang police station to the police yesterday. Situated at the junction of Paya Lebar Road and Übi Avenue 2, the station will replace Beach Road police station. It is expected to start operations on May
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    • 69 14 PEOPLE in need of free legal advice can get this at various community centres from 7.30 pir to 9.30 pm this month from a group of legal counsellors as well as members of the Singapore Association of Women Lawyers. The volunteers will be at Duxton
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    • 518 14 THE new granite statue of St John Baptist de la Salle arrived at St Joseph's Institution in Malcolm Road on Friday and was given pride of place on the school portico. The 3.5-tonne statue is a replica of the
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    • 271 15 Judge tells doctors of today's new patient and legal liabilities DOCTORS today face a new type of patient who is becoming less dependent on medical judgment, a High Court judge said yesterday. Unlike in the past, the Singaporean now prefers to decide whether he should go for treatment and wants
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    • 44 15 SENIOR Minister (Prime Minister's Office) and MP for Kampong Glam S. Rajaratnam, will be guest of honour at a sports event called the S. Rajaratnam Cup Senior Citizens Gateball Championships '88. The finals and prize presentation will be held todayat 4.30 pm.
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    • 36 15 MR P. S. YONG, of Selangor Pewter, has been elected president of the Singapore Advertisers Association. Mr Heng Teng Kwang, of Cold Storage, and Mr Fan Kow Hin, of Fraser and Neave, were elected vicepresidents.
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    • 260 15 THE Registry of Vehicles has discovered a forged licence number plate on a new car sent to it for inspection by a reputable motor company. The fake general trade licence plate, on a new Toyota Corona model sent in by Borneo
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    • 580 15 Be firm but not harsh, BG Lee tells new officers BE FIRM but not harsh, considerate but not soft, close but never familiar this was the advice for a group of graduating cadet officers from BrigGen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. As an illustration, BG Lee, who is the Second
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    • 323 15  -  FOO SIANG LUEN By MIND over matter is the distinguishing quality which enabled three young men to become top officer cadets at the end of their nine-month training stint. Officer Cadet (OCT) Peter Lye Thiam Yew, 20, who was presented the coveted Sword of
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    • 331 17 Innovative idea saves shipping company $20m AN INNOVATIVE Singapore shipping company which started as a ship chandler in Punggol 30 years ago has become one of the first in the world to convert an old barge into a floating dry-dock. It first bought the 76-metre
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    • 97 17 A LABOUR force survey is being carried out this month by the Labour Ministry to collect data on employment and unemployment. The purpose is to help the government plan policies on employment. Ministry officials will visit 6,000 households to gather information on sex, age, educa- tion,
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    • 185 17 SAF goes to rescue of driver pinned under truck for three hours A DRIVER who was pinned under his truck in Vigilante Drive, off South Buona Vista Road, was rescued after nearly three hours yesterday. Mr Tan Thiam Chai's trauma ended at 10 pm, when he was pulled out and
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    • 112 17 ABOUT 14 people had to vacate their home a threestorey pre-war shophouse in Mohamad Sultan Road after the ceiling on the top floor collapsed yesterday. Police said there were about 10 people in the coffeeshop, which occupied the ground floor, when the incident occurred at
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    • 186 17 Gang picked flashy manager as target A SALES manager was picked by a former employee as the target of a robbery because of the expensive jewellery and watch he wore, a district court heard yesterday. The court was told that the ex- worker, together with three accomplices, rushed at Mr
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    • 368 17  - Tokyo students shocked by Spore history book Peter Hazelhurst By Tokyo Correspondent A GROUP of Tokyo students, who recently translated a Singapore history book, claimed they were shocked to discover that Japanese troops were responsible for atrocities in Singapore during World War 11. The translated book, which was published in
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    • 369 17 Social and Economic History of Modern Singapore THE record of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore may have shocked Tokyo students, but it is well-known to students here. And though the Tokyo readers may have been shocked, the book itself far from condemns the Japanese
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    • 499 18 Free song and dance show for shoppers at Marina Square LIKE raw diamonds waiting to be cut and polished, 14 amateur "stars" sang and danced before about 2,000 shoppers at Marina Square yesterday. From mimicking the King of Rock 'n' Roll Elvis Presley to copying
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    • 256 18 IT WAS business as well as pleasure last night for five beauty queens. First, they met First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong when he arrived to officially open the Marine Parade community centre extension. But besides lending glamour to the occasion, they also
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    • 293 18 NZ visitor is Sentosa's two-millionth MRS VIVIENNE DEANE, 37. was startled when a buzzer sounded the moment she stepped off the launch onto the Sentosa Ferry Terminal yesterday. Her first thought was that she was entering the island illegally. But even as she was wondering, the quiet of the resort
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    • 147 18 AN ELDERLY woman died in hospital after she was knocked down by a taxi along Queensway on Friday. Police said Madam Lee Kah Choo, 77, was walking towards Commonwealth Avenue, in front of Block 33, when the accident occurred at about 11.10 am.
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      • 327 19 THE Singapore Turf Club (STC) lost control of its assets and income from horse racing and four-digit draws late last year when the Government set up the Singapore Totalisator Board and put it in charge. Last week it lost its job of running the business altogether,
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    • 154 19 What The Sunday Times reported on March 17, 1963 IN THREE years, the Housing and Development Board "broke the back" of Singapore's housing problem. In recognition of his leadership of the board, its chairman, Mr Lim Kim San, was yesterday invested with the exclusive Order of Temasek.
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    • 1296 19 One is an air force officer, another a lawyer. Why did both feel they should speak up? CAPT HO KAY SIEW was born" on June 22, 1960. Single, his family includes a widowed mother, three brothers and seven sisters. 1978: Passed A-levels, Catholic Junior College.
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    • 73 19 A LITTLE THOUGHT WOULD HAVE MEANT SO MUCH w JB |fp MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, SINGAPORE MM W\ jmht^ ;::^Sy^P^^Mff^ .miniri^grm. Fa// ronevrt m B x -^->- i h Av r v\ B J Jl^ v^lßm L^^B m V^ BMia W*l^k^ Bf H«i '''■J&&k!£ '^^mBB- Organised h\ the ;^^k Goethe
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    • 372 19 The Top Fuornituie Exhibition in 1987 is back with an even better presentation! jvjtT- j < "iC^^y|«* < >^ s '^■•liP'^ fe^^ itf Tne G ranc Lu^ky Draw will be conducted tonight at Jp? "111^ 9.30 pm at Wbrld Trade Centre Hall 4. Results will be fjr published in the
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    • 879 20 I Tan Sai Siong Hands up all those who have never commandeered office stationery for their own use, gone to work late and left early, or never asked their secretaries to run personal errands on their behalf. WHEN I read an article
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    • 910 20 I Russell Heng We swopped the oldest English school in Singapore for the tallest hotel in the world. But with the oldest school building, the record is for keeps. The tallest hotel in the world is just good for until
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    • 748 20 I Sivam Subramaniam Successful men in business are newsmakers whether they like it or not. The public is interested in their views. Why aren't they more forthcoming? THIS is a plea for newsmakers in the private sector to be more open with the press so
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    • 389 20 zsdrwa WHEN Aziz, Raj and I returned from our holiday at Fraser's Hill, the first thing we did was to run down to Mohideen's Sarabat Stall to drown our sorrows in buckets of Mohideen's famous tea. "How? Had a good holiday at Fraser's?" Mohideen
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    • 1523 21  -  LEE SWEE HOON By THEY are young and enthusiastic, work long and hard at their jobs, always ready to give a sympathetic ear to troubled souls. They are the approximately 75 full-time social workers who provide the expertise that enables Singapore's voluntary welfare organisations to
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    • 519 21 WHAT do social workers do? Here are four cases. After three years of marriage, her husband started to bash Mrs Marie Eng (not her real name). Feeling lost and unsure, she sought help at the Counselling and Care Centre. "I was only 24 and wanted to
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    • 224 22  -  LIONEL LEE By our man on the track IPOH American Tycoon should not miss despite topweight of 58kg in Race 6 here today. This four-year-old Ameri-can-bred by Shecky Greene showed signs of developing into a useful stayer with two smashing wins at Kuala
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    • 5305 22 dfgdtsert MHMI| 2.00 CLASS 2 DIV E 1,600m fl.TT*i4 i (Ratings: 115-102) HiA,ifiiul»illiir (Stakes: $15,600) 1 15*60 Status Symbol 57 (115) Ammu-Shanmugam 6 nzg dc +9 (1400m). Back from 4-month layoff; faded from midfield to 2nd last of 14 runners Cl-2 S'pore 1600m soft Oct 3; came
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    • 338 22 RACE Racing Editor Lionel Loe Tap Thean Loon Malcolm Bastians Danny Khoo 6 Lucky Lucky 6 Lucky Lucky 2 M Falcon 6 Lucky Lucky 6 Lucky Lucky 4 Celebrity 5 Mesti Boleh 6 Lucky Lucky 7 Cottonii 4 Celebrity 5 Mesti Boleh 2 M Falcon 4
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    • 96 22 THESE horses have won or done well on a wet track: RACE 1: Status Symbol, Columbian Emerald. RACE 2: Exotical, Diamond Cutter. RACE 3: D'Capricon, Return Of Spring, Strong And Flashy, Tifox, Concert Master, High Index. RACE 4: Mighty Mission, Kuai Ma Shen Bian, Rising Sun, How Now, Giant
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    • 227 23  -  JACK ELLIOTT By MELBOURNE Flotilla and Sky Chase, racing at two racecourses 900 km apart yesterday, won their respective trials for the Asl.l million (about Ssl.s million) AJC Derby (2,400m) to be run at Randwick in Sydney on April 2. Flotilla was an
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    • 184 23 LONDON Dancing Brave, the 1986 champion racehorse in Britain, has failed to get any of the six mares he has so far covered in foal. Now fully recovered from the serious illness he contracted last year, Dancing Brave has been tested by the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association equine
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    • 60 23 LONDON A bookmaker lost a bundle when a punter here won a record £217,708 (about S$800,000) for a £10 bet on Thursday. The punter had placed a combination bet on four winners at the Cheltenham festival at prices between 6-1 and 14-1, and it was confirmed
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    • 389 24 321 Deaths 321 Deaths MADAM ONG YEOK WAH 76 YEARS OLD passed away peacefully on 18.3.88 at 8.30pm, leaving behind beloved: Sons: Daughters-in-law: Erh Seng Chong Ho Fong Yin Ng Seng Koon David Doreen Yan Ng Seng Chee Jimmy Llm Ah Jl Ong Seng Ho Tommy Iris Chua Ng Seng
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      30 24 With Deepest Sympathy and Condolences to The Family of the Late MR CHUA HIM CHYE From: The Advisory Committea, Principal, Vice Principal and Staff of MERLIMAU PRI. SCHOOL
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      213 24 In avar loving memory of: JIMMY TAN YEW CHYE Departed 20.3.73 You left us suddenly fifteen years ago to-day But the sadness and thoughts of you will forever stay However we are consoled that you had not died In vain For what you had bequeathed have helped
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    • 582 24 British golfer is latest target of anti-apartheid faction LONDON lan Woosnam, the world's most successful golfer last year, is the latest target of the anti-apartheid campaigners who forced Zola Budd out of the British team for the world cross-country championships in New Zealand next Saturday.
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    • 444 24 Steffi toils while Noah steals the show KEY BISCAYNE (Florida) Top-seeded Steffi Graf struggled in the first set before beating South African Rosalyn Fairbank 7-6 (7-0), 6-0 on Friday, but Yannick Noah was the focus of attention in the third round of the US$2.l million ($4.2m) international players championships. Noah,
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    • 174 24 ATHLETICS First Junior All-Comers Meet: (National Stadium Practice Track, 2.30pm). BADMINTON Inter-Con: Tampines v Hong Kah, Marine Parade v Thomson, Tiong Bahru v Serangoon Gardens, Ulu Pandan v Clementi (Toa Pay oh Sports Hall, 7.15pm). BOWLING Queens Championships: Graded Masters F'inal (9am); Open Masters Finals (3pm) both at
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    • 87 24 Aussies reach final of World Cup BOURNEMOUTH (England) Australia are through to the final of the £125,000 ($466,250) snooker World Cup for the first time after thrashing Scotland 5-1 here on Friday. After a run of 10 successive defeats, the Australian trio of John Campbell, Eddie Charlton and Warren King
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    • 280 24 ONLY Danny Tan stood firm as the top seeds imposed their class and pedigree in the fifth round of the RPM Snooker 3000 at the SBSC clubhouse on Friday. Danny, Singapore's chief referee, ousted seventh-seed Woffles Wu 4-2 after a tactical battle which lasted more than three hours.
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    • 198 24 PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad) The West Indies, fired by an unbeaten 142 from Desmond Haynes, beat Pakistan by 50 runs here on Friday to take a winning 3-0 lead in the five-match one-day series. Brief scores: West Indies 315-4 in 47 overs (D.
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    • 542 24 BADMINTON Ulu Pandan beat Kaki Bukit 3-0 in the second round of the inter-constituency tournament at Toa Payoh Sports Hall on Friday night. Other results: Serangoon Garden 3 Whampoa 2, Clementi 3 River Valley 1, Tiong Bahru 3 Telok Blangah 0. BOWLING Sharon Nelson rolled 2,322 pinfalls (193
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    • 178 24 BASKETBALL The Chicago Bulls staved off a comeback by the Boston Celtics to win 113-103 in a National Basketball Association game on Friday. Other results: Atlanta 106 New Jersey 104, Philadelphia 129 Indiana 109, Seattle 118 San Antonio 110 (OT), Utah 118 Denver 111, Dallas 106 LA Clippers
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    • 424 25 South Korean knocks out top seed LONDON World champion Han Aiping, the top seed and overwhelming favourite, was knocked out of the All-England badminton Championships by a 17--year-old high school student here on Friday. South Korean Lee Young Suk, on her first appearance here, outplayed Aiping 11-6,
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    • 262 25 Men's singles: Jens Peter Nierhoff (Den) bt Park Sung Bae (SK) 15-9, 15-1; Eddy Kurniawan (Indo) bt Nick Yates (Eng) 15-4, 15-10; lb Frederiksen (Den) bt Michael Kjeldsen (Den) 15-5, 15-5; Morten Frost (Den) bt Darren Hall (Eng) 17-15, 15-4. Women's singles: Zheng Yuli (C) bt Sumiko
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    • 944 25  - Big game elsewhere, deal in London ALAN HUBBARD ALWAYS ON SUNDAY THE All-England badminton Championships are now being played at Wembley, a fact Singapore and the rest of Asia are well aware. In London, however, it strangely seems to have escaped our notice. There has barely been even a miserly
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    • 365 25 The champ stays in contention 41 saw that Han Aiping was losing on the next court and with Zhao Jianhua losing yesterday I felt this might be the year we all lose. But I survived. Frost, after his match with Darren Hall. Champions look set to retain
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    • 363 25 Early bogey no setback for Hsieh JAKARTA Overnight leader Hsieh Yu-shu, of Taiwan, 27, shot a four-under-par 66 for a sixstroke win in the Indonesian Open golf tournament here today. Hsieh started shakily with a bogey on the third hole. But he quickly settled down and fired birdies on the
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    • 590 26 Liverpool set to be hailed as Britain's team of the century ALAN HUBBARD previews the Everton-Liverpool historic match A peek into the Liverpool fact file ONLY Charlton and Southampton have scored twice in the same League match against Liverpool this season. Charlton lost 3-2 and Southampton
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    • 178 26 LEEDS 1973-74 Cherry Simpson (og), Jordan 2 tones, Jordan LIVERPOOL 1987-88 GE&&J ARSENAL (a) 2-1 JUdridfe, licol COVENTRY (a) 4-1 Ncol 2, Aldridge (pen), Beardsley WEST HAM (a) 1-1 Aldridfe (pen) OXFORD (h) 2-0 JUdridfe, Barnes CHARLTON (h) 3-2 Aldridge (pen), Hansen, McMahon NEWCASTLE (a) 4-1 Hcol,
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    • 84 26  - Novice Gary all set to leapfrog the queue for an England place ROB HUGHES Talk of Soccar 4 The Boro lads will tell you I'm still a bit lazy. But the way things are going, I must be doing something right. I don't know whether I will be in the
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    • 905 26 Pallister is hitting the heights JUST over two years ago Gary Pallister was a big, lazy, unwanted centre-half. Today he joins England's squad for Wednesday's international against Holland at Wembley. Pallister, who stands 1.95m in his socks, is on the brink of playing for his country because there is panic
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    • 1610 27 RAJENDRAN FOCUSES ON BALESTIER UNITED SKIPPER ISHAK SAAD... Ishak 's bent on shackling Kannan SINGAPORE POOLS CUP SEMI-FINAL: Balestier Utd v Jurong Town FC (Jin Besar Stadium, Bpm) AND ON JURONG TOWN FC SKIPPER JEFFREY L AZAROO Jeffrey's bent on a farewell souvenir JOE DORAI PREVIEWS
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    • 484 27 J. RAJENDRAN SETS THE MOOD FOR THE CLASH WE know that one player does not make a football team. But what about two? Well, after tonight we will know if the combined skills of Malaysia's Khan Hung Meng and Singapore's Nasir Jalil were good enough to
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    • 155 27 CASABLANCA Morocco, aspiring to be the first African nation to host the World Cup finals, have been beating their own drum loudly this week before top international soccer officials. At the opening of the Africa Nations Cup finals the message was paraded around the stadium and
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    • 153 27 MARK LAWRENSON is playing down claims that he is on the verge of quitting football because of injury problems. Liverpool's versatile Republic of Ireland international has not played since the middle of January because of a recurrence of an Achilles tendon injury, but on Friday Lawrenson denied reports
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  • 248 28 BADMINTON superpowers China are opening their doors to professionalism. They will be "exporting" women aces Gu Jiaming and Qian Ping to Japan for a combined transfer fee of US$5O,OOO ($100,500). The pair, seeded fifth to eighth in the All-England women's singles
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  • 56 28 CARDIFF France resisted a late challenge by Wales yesterday to win the deciding Five-Nations rugby union championship match 10-9. Their victory enabled them to share the title with Wales, who had needed only a draw to win the competition outright for the first time since 1979. In
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  • 353 28 THE SINGAPORE POOLS CUP SEMI-FINAL JOE DORAI REPORTS Trophy and title as good as in the bag PREMIER League champions Geylang International can count on another title and a $10,000 cheque as winners of the Singapore Pools Cup soccer competition even before the tournament is over.
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  • 492 28 BRITISH SOCCER LONDON Nottingham Forest's first capacity crowd of the season had to settle for a disappointing goalless draw against Manchester United in the English First Division yesterday. With leaders Liverpool not playing until today, against Everton, there was a
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  • 418 28 THE SINGAPORE POOLS CUP SEMI-FINAL GODFREY ROBERT COMMENTS ONE felt a little sympathetic towards Safsa when they fell 2-0 behind in the 56th minute purely because of the manner by which Geylang found the net. First Geylang skipper Salim
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  • 212 28 WATER POLO...ALBERT JOHNSON REPORTS SINGAPORE'S water polo team held Racing Club, of France, to an 11-11 draw at Toa Payoh pool yesterday. Racing Club, who have four internationals in their side, beat Singapore 12-6 on Friday. The two sides will play a final match today at 5.30pm
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      • 597 4 STEVE JACOBI on why Oscar Wilde's works still live on today. A documentary tracing the rise and fall of the famous writer and wit will be shown on Wednesday, Ch 12, 8 pm. WHEN Oscar Wilde died in 1900 at the relatively young age of 46,
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        414 15 Geography PAKISTAN covers an area of 796,095 sq km. It is bordered by India to the east, China to the north-east, and Afghanistan and Iran to the west. History Pakistan was created by the partition of British India in 1947. The country was divided into East and West,
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      • 418 16 MESSAGE Tasneem Noorani Charge D'Affaires Embassy of Pakistan THE formal launching of the struggle by the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent to demand a separate homeland for themselves was marked by a mass rally organised by the Muslim League at Lahore on March 23, 1940,
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      • 413 16  -  YEO KIM SENG By IN LINE with its trade promotion policy, the Pakistani Embassy here will be opening its trade centre before the end of this year. Trade between Singapore and Pakistan grew substantially by 16.5 per cent last year compared with the previous year
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      • 634 16 PAKISTAN can be proud of its humble industrial beginnings of cotton looms and spindles that has spawned the growth of its modern industries. There were merely 78,000 spindles and a few looms operating in 1947, when Pakistan was created by the
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      • 1095 2 Today, with some wives making nearly as much or more than their husbands and likely to have their own, often divergent, ideas about spending it, money is a source of greater connubial discord than ever before. ERICA E. GOODE reports how
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      • 389 2  -  KONG SOOK CHIN By A FRIEND was in deep distress the other night because his girlfriend walked out on him because he was not rich enough. She was used to a life of ease and yearned for even more creature comforts a house in
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      • 103 2 -THEBIG DECISION FOR 4 BETTER FUTURE IN YOUR CAREER So you've finished 'O' or 'A Level What's the next step you're going to take 7 Engineering 7 Business administration 7 Marketing 7 What should you choose from the several careers in which you have the potential to succeed 7 This
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        1031 3 It's easier to select make-up if you know some national predilections, reveals CATHERINE ONG. with help from photographer NIK KASMANI. COSMETIC companies, just out with their spring and summer colours, are making a determined bid to lighten a woman's wallet again. But it's a rare customer who knows
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      • 315 3 CHEAP and expensive cosmetics look the same the latter just costs very much more. True? Not true, say the professionals in the business. The raw materials are different. You are paying for quality. According to Chanel's Make-up Director, Mr Dominique Moncourtois, Chanel pays more than
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      • 286 3 Scarves return as a top accessory ty ytry hghsr NOW that the neck and shoulders are back in fashion focus, the scarf has become one of this year's most important accessories, reports the British Daily Mail newspaper. It instantly softens last year's square-shouldered, man-cut jacket or spruces up an old
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      • 413 3 cx TT?OPF7 lJ 1 11^ '1 I_iZ_, TAHITI 1 m MATCH THE ADVENTURE OF EHMAI BEACH. The famous international playgrounds of the jetset cannot compare to the unspoiled beauty and intriguing culture of Damai Beach. There is always excitement in new discover)'. With a list of facilities to match other
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    • FOOD
      • 507 4 MARGARET CHAN finds a hybrid noodle dish at a hawker stall worth investigating EAT OUT MORE revelations on the dynamic hawker front; this time, it is the discovery of a hybrid dish Teochew guo tiao and fried Hokkien noodles with a taste and character all its own. A
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      • 1061 4  -  LEE GEOK BOI dfgdsgdtge By CAMPERS and hikers will be pleased to know that there are alternatives to the usual West-ern-style packet soups that they can take with them on a trip. Knorr Swiss has on the supermarket shelves a
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      • Out of the frying pan into the lunchbox
        • 160 4  -  MARGARET CHAN By ONE of the biggest miseries in a child's life must be getting the same old stuff every day as a packed lunch for school. There is nothing less inspiring than having to face that inevitable egg and tomato sandwich, with the ketchup oozing out of
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        • 167 4 Four eggs 1 teabag or 2 tsps dried tea leaves 1 tsp salt 1 tbsp dark soya sauce Wholemeal biscuits Fruits for salad Gently tap hardboiled eggs all round to create fine cracks in shell. Do not peel. Put eggs in small pot and cover with water.
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        • 89 4 Make sandwiches with wholemeal bread and sliced cheese. Toast until golden brown. Sandwiches individually wrapped in foil can be frozen up to a month. Toast the frozen package unopened and without thawing. It takes 10 to 20 minutes to have them crisp and golden, depending on heat
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        • 112 4 The basic formula is one egg lightly beaten with two level dessertspoons castor sugar and two slices wholemeal bread with crust removed. Day-old or two-day-old bread is drier and firmer to handle; fresh bread might break easily when soaked Dip bread slices in egg mixture to cover but
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      • 607 5  -  CHARLES PARR By BOMBAY is one of those wonderfully exotic places where you hardly have to ferret out tourist spots. Just strolling the streets is entertainment enough. Festivals seem to go on all the time, taking place in quick cycles. In the course
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      • 776 5  -  LIM PHAY-LING By IT HAS become almost as well-known as the Golden Gate Bridge. They say in San Francisco, some tourists get off the plane and head straight for it even before they check into their hotel. What's this magnet in northern California?
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      • 1060 6 Artist who makes head lines STEVE JACOB) invites Chua Mia Tee to sit for an interview, and comes up with a portrait of the artist as a realist. FOR two mornings, an artist and a businessman sit and chat over drinks, discussing the various poses one can adopt for portraiture.
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      • 267 6 WHEN artist Eng Tow was on her way back from a fellowship in New York in 1986, she stopped by in Hongkong and looked into the possibility of holding an exhibition. Two years, much negotiating, many headaches and a house move later, the awardwinning
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      • 176 7 If you're planning a holiday A special feature on some of the more untypical travel destinations THE two-day Travel Fair '88, organised by the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas), ends today at 8 pm. With a total of 105 stalls from 72 participants in the travel, airline and
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      • 496 7  -  CYNTHIA YEO By COCONUT palms lining the beach sway gently in the wind while the waves lap lazily on the fine white sand. Out in the open sea, the clear blue waters glisten in the setting sun. If you think this is Hawaii, guess again. This
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      • 503 8  -  YEO KIM SENG By THE world's only floating hotel, anchored in a coral lagoon on the John Brewer Reef (part of the Great Barrier Reef), opened on Friday. Three weeks after it was christened The John Brewer last month, Cyclone Charlie came a-visitinjj. But the sturdy
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        906 8  -  CYNTHIA YEO Journey of a lifetime on the Trans-Siberian Railway, from Beijing to Moscow By QUOTE World of our own For the first time, I reaiiy 9 felt alone, completely cut off from the rest of the world, in this vast expanse. 7 Miss H. L. Lim, 33, a
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        441 9 from Beijing to Moscow ■TTPpvipw World of our own C For the first time, I really felt alone, completely cut off from the rest of the m world, in this vast expanse. 7 Miss H. L Lim, 33, a secretary, recalling her Trans-Siberian jaunt with two friends two years
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      • 623 9 if BEYOND the bustle of urban Bangkok or the lure of Pattaya by the sea, there is wonder in the rugged mountains of north-western Thailand. Mae Hong Son province, nestled against the rugged mountains in the north and the Burmese border in
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      • 647 10  -  CYNTHIA YEO By What a feeling! 4 You can literally lie down on the waters, read a book and you still float. That's how salty m the waters are! Miss S. K. Koh, 33, a secretary, who went to Israel recently and found
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      • 426 10 Some things to keep in mind when in the Holy Land IMAGINE ordering Oriental cuisine, expecting it to be Chinese, and you get Arabic food instead. This happened to Miss Lo Wei Min, an accountant, who went on a business trip to Israel two years ago. Miss Lo, 31, said:
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      • 712 11  - India a land of unending contrasts ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM By Two different worlds 4 Taj Mahal is simply awesome! Architecture in India is so intelligent, so magnificent. But beyond the palaces lie a vast different world of village people trying hard to make a living. Miss Agnes Khoo, 23, a teacher
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      • 371 11 Fun, sun and more on liner's cruise to nowhere WHY get away from it all only to face airport customs and immigration hassles, lug luggage from stop to stop and come home feeling like you need another holiday? Take a Cruise to Nowhere instead. The newly refurbished Orient Princess offers
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      • 468 9 How to get round the English natural reserve. i For a mere $133 Bargain Britain's British is of course to stay with them. From $100 for in London from $56 a night v Shrinkers Holidays offer you road and 3 nights, you can stay in a typical English home or
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      • 434 12  -  DIANE LIM A special feature for all those planning to walk down the aisle By Venue: Hall 2, World Trade Centre Date: Thursday till Sunday Time: Noon to 9 pm Admission: Free. Admission to Flowers in the Dark display: $2. Children under 12
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      • 656 12 M ONCE the big day is over, the photographs are a tangible and lasting reminder of your wedding festivities. When you look at them, you will want to remember the thrill of excitement you felt then. And you will want to show your children how
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      • 119 13 By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor. Marriage is a mistake
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      • 689 13  -  UMA MOORTHY By COUPLES should, before marriage, learn about their bodies, the body's functions and sensations, said Mr Anthony Yeo. "Understanding how both feel about their bodies is an important responsibility for them to derive maximum comfort and pleasure," he added. Mr Yeo, 39, said couples
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      • 470 13 BRIGHT red invitation cards rampant with golden dragons and phoenixes still herald weddings, among the Chinese especially. These are often given free by the restaurant where the bridal dinner is to be held, and few people spare them much thought. But many hotels and restaurants have broken from
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      • 411 12 H Sixth Presentation A day at Wedding Show '88 promises to make all your wedding fantasies come true in style. Whether it's flowers, bridal gowns, jewellery, wedding Jr cakes, invitation cards, photographs, wedding banquets, bridal cars or honeymoon tours, Wedding Show '88 brings all these bridal necessities under one roof
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      • 816 14 God-fearing and practical The Hindu WHEN he was a child, Mr V. Krishna's mother used to get very upset if he cut his nails at night. Demons will rush in, bad luck will follow, she said. After one such outburst, his father quietly waved him over. "Do you know why
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      • 208 14 This is the land where the rich cultures and traditions of the past mingle with today's r T^T_TT_? /~\T T^\TT^T "TJA T3 A r\TC T"? Encnantin 9- exciting, fascinating. To make it even more memorable, fly there modern age. This is the golden paradise where all paradise-seekers end their search.
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